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Robert Lorin Calder, an English teacher at the University of Saskatchewan, has written the kind of academic dissertation that is doomed to sit on the shelf as if in a jar, pickled. But the book's appendices, not just one but two, are inflamed with gossipy life...
That sort of fancy is based on the knowledge that Solti is a native of Hungary, the land of Magyars. He comes from a family of bakers who had lived in the small Hungarian village of Balatönfokájar since the 16th century. His father Mores left the village in search of opportunities in the grain business and then real estate ("both with very little success," his son recalls); he set himself up in Budapest, where Gyuri (the diminutive of the Hungarian version of George) Solti was born...
...East Side included all the chic refreshments. It began with perfectly mixed martinis, followed by a fine vintage French wine with the main course. With dessert, guests puffed the finest marijuana. Then, after coffee and cognac, the young hostess presented the evening's piece de resistance: a glass jar filled with a white powder. "Would anybody like a hit of coke?" she inquired casually, as if offering another drink. Indeed they would. Recalls one of the guests: "I was so wrecked by the time I left that I could barely find my way to the next party. But when...
...pick one image. And he was very much a functionalist. "If my technique, imagination and vision are any good," he once observed, "I ought to be able to put the best values of my noncommercial and experimental photography into a pair of shoes, a tube of toothpaste, a jar of face cream, a mattress or any object I want to light up and make humanly interesting in an advertising photograph...
Indeed, the need being so obvious and the city's tawdriness such a familiar symbol of the nation's urban mess, each Saran-wrapped view of it is likely to jar audiences with a shock of nonrecognition. Where has Greene hidden the psychologically bombed civilian population? Where have all the smog, graffiti and litter gone...